EGAVE

barker

About 3.26 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun Someone or something who barks.
    My neighbor's dog is a constant barker that keeps me awake at night.
  2. noun A person employed to solicit customers by calling out to passersby, e.g. at a carnival.
    Bob had amassed a considerable stockpile of double entendres from his days working as a barker for a strip joint.
  3. noun A shelf-talker.
  4. noun A video game mode where the action is demonstrated to entice someone to play the game.
    The barker looks action-packed, but actually playing the game is rather dull.
  5. noun A pistol.
  6. noun The spotted redshank.
  7. noun A person who removes needed or valuable tree bark, as on a cinnamon or cinchona plantation.
    The profession of barker has been made largely obsolete by the realization that in most cases saplings can be cultivated far more profitably.
  8. noun A tanner.
    The profession of barker has been made largely obsolete by the introduction of more effective tanning agents, but it lives on as a surname.

Similar words

bark parker baker lex wilson granville benfield wagener lunn crier

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Word family

barkers

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